Picault, Chantal

(November 4, 1954, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France - )

   She spent her childhood in Dakar, Senegal, and Al­giers. She acquired a taste for cinema thanks to a history teacher who led a cine-club. Having graduated from the Arts Décoratifs of Nice with a superior national diploma in plastic expression, she dedicated herself to painting before switching to screenwriting and directing. After being an assistant director (1977 Genre Masculin, Jean Marboeuf; 1979 Et la Tendresse? . . . Bordel!, Patrick Schulmann), she shot institutional films and personal shorts for five years.

 Filmography

        ◘ Pour la Vie (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Les Arcanes de Jeu (short; also screenwriter)

1981 ◘ Le Cercle de Pierres (video; short)

1987 ◘ Accroche-Cœur (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Terre brûlée

        ◘ La Lettre inachevée (also co-screenwriter)

1996 ◘ Le Vent de l'Oubli (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ La Femme de Plume

1997 ◘ La Pierre à marier (also co-screenwriter)

1999 ◘ La Route à l'envers

        ◘ L'Instit (episode "Juliette et Roméo"; France / Switzerland)

2001 ◘ Prisonniers du Silence

2002 ◘ Louis Page (episode "Un Enfant en Danger")

        ◘ La Griffe (documentary; short)